From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 23 8:23:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu (web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu [134.129.125.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63A6B37B400 for ; Thu, 23 May 2002 08:23:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tinguely@localhost) by web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu (8.11.4/8.11.4) id g4NFN9s25261; Thu, 23 May 2002 10:23:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tinguely) Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 10:23:09 -0500 (CDT) From: mark tinguely Message-Id: <200205231523.g4NFN9s25261@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, gareth@za.uu.net Subject: Re: Problem with Adaptec Raid Controller In-Reply-To: <20020522193658.A20523-100000@gabba.so.cpt1.za.uu.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > The raidutil program works fine for the first 3 weeks or so but then > gives the following error when run > > Shared Memory Allocation Failed, To Size = 400, From Size = fc00, Errno = 1c > Shared Memory Allocation Failed, To Size = 400, From Size = fc00, Errno = 1c > Engine connect failed: COMPATILITY number > > I have mailed Adaptec and they have told me to recreate dpt in /dev. > Then need to reboot. I have done this and it works. Only problem is I > cannot reboot the machines every 3 weeks ( same story on 4 different > machines) errno 1c == 28(decimal) or ENOSPC. The reboot rather than the recreation of the dpt device actually cleared the error. Looks like one of your shared memory parameters needs to be increased. You could bump all your shared memory settings or compile the "SEM_DEBUG" option into your kernel to locate exactly which allocation failed. --mark tinguely. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message